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Entries from January 28th, 2010

mod_rewrite on Zeus for pretty URLs in Wordpress (namesco)

January 28th, 2010 1 Comment

Just been installing a Wordpress blog on a Namesco Zeus server. Zeus servers don’t use mod_rewrite, they use rewrite.scripts instead. The syntax is totally different. The solution is here at Adam Christie’s blog, but I’ll take the liberty of posting it here too in case that’s ever unavailable:
RULE_0_START:
# get the document root
map path into [...]

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Spin Backlink Link Text with PHP

January 26th, 2010 No Comments

Quick one: if you’re placing backlinks on sites for SEO purposes and you’re at all worried about over-optimisation, this technique may be useful to you:

<a href=”http://www.isvirtual.co.uk”><?php echo rand(0,1) ? “Website design” : “Web Site Design”; ?></a> and <a href=”http://www.isvirtual.co.uk/seo-cambridge.php”><?php echo rand(0,1) ? “SEO Cambridge” : “Cambridge SEO”; ?></a> by <a href=”http://www.isvirtual.co.uk”><?php echo rand(0,1) ? “ISVirtual” [...]

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Local SEO - Cambridge

January 12th, 2010 No Comments

Firstly, happy 2010!
Secondly, this is a blatant slice of self-promotion!
If you’re looking for SEO Cambridge specialists, you should be talking to ISVirtual!
We’ve been working with a number of local companies to raise their SERPs profiles and are already seeing good success rates with a number of clients’ sites raised from obscurity to page 1 positions [...]

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